Fly in the face of danger with first-person drone view
15 October 2014
Zip past obstacles at 160 kilometres an hour but without risking life and limb – the immersive sport of first-person video drone racing makes it possible
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Nowhere to hide: the danger of satellite spies
8 October 2014
The next generation of surveillance is already here and will redefine what we mean by public space
World's first space detective agency launched
8 October 2014
Satellite and drone images are increasingly being used as evidence in court. Now two experts in the field have started a specialist agency
Today on New Scientist
25 September 2014
All the latest on newscientist.com: how to live in the multiverse, gaming bots, modified aubergines and India, looming CubeSat catastrophe and more
Air-chaeological drones search for ancient treasures
24 September 2014
A pair of drones is flying over ancient Greek cities, building precise 3D maps and searching for clues to still-buried artefacts
Today on New Scientist
19 September 2014
All the latest on newscientist.com: 6 solar strangenesses, US drone zones open, Ig Nobels, Apple Watch, ants vs spiders, epileptic poetry and more
US opens 'drone zones' for a year of pioneer testing
17 September 2014
From farming to firefighting, drones will soon fly into everyday life in the US – the Federal Aviation Administration has six flight zones paving the way
Ethical trap: robot paralysed by choice of who to save
10 September 2014
Can a robot learn right from wrong? Attempts to imbue robots, self-driving cars and military machines with a sense of ethics reveal just how hard this is
Myths and reality of the Nazi space rocket
3 September 2014
Seventy years ago this month, one of the second world war's scariest weapons began to rain terror on London. But the V-2 was also the world's first spacecraft
What it's like to fly passenger planes from the ground
7 August 2014
Bob Fraser explains what it feels like to pilot a Jetstream airliner containing passengers on 800-kilometre trips from a desk
